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Photo by Jeswin Thomas   I'm not usually one to write sad posts. So if you prefer not to cry sad tears today, feel free to stop reading. No offense taken. My desire is to add some depth and poignancy to offset the sadness, so we can all be touched deeply in some...

Photo by Carl Flor   I used to dread family holiday gatherings.   On one hand, I wanted to see my family for Christmas because we lived in different states and I missed them. I Iove the idea of family gathered around the Christmas tree opening presents...

My friend just turned 50. She’s a psychologist and hates her job. I ask why she continues doing it and she tells me she’s invested too much time, energy and money into it to quit. This is the exact same reason she told me 20+ years ago when she became a psychologist...

Photo Credit: Alejandro Alvarez   Last week, I was a featured guest mentor at The Changemakers Circle where all the attendees got to ask me questions, round robin style. The topic was about finding balance in our lives, especially within our emotions. It was an honor...

Photo credit: Kento Iemoto “Your body can’t get pregnant,” my doctor said matter-of-factly last year, as if she was telling me I had a piece of lint on my shirt.   “Oh,” I said. “Ok,” as if picking the lint off and flicking it to the floor.     I mirrored...

Last week, I wrote about the call to surrender. This week, I was given an opportunity to dive deeper into surrender when my dog, Bailey, became critically ill. (Don’t worry, this story has a happy ending) When we’re faced with the potential loss of a loved one, we...

  I'm baaack! Miss me?   I can't believe it's been 6 months since I started my sabbatical! If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that in March, I announced that I needed to take a month off to heal some deep wounds and focus on my health. If you're...

This is a guest post contributed by a fellow sensitive soul, Leslie Ralph, who also writes and doodles. Stick Girl especially enjoys playing with her hens with pens characters. Since I'm on break, I invited Leslie to write something for my audience and...

I polled my audience asking what they most want to know about depression and the top four questions were: Why am I depressed? How can I help myself through this depression? Is there something deeply wrong with me that I can't be happy? As an empath, how...

  Ok… so I lied…. I’m not quite offline yet. If you read my epic commitment to myself last week, you’ll probably think this is one of the automated posts I mentioned. Nope. It’s not. I’m really here, right now, writing this in real time, moments before I hit...

In the past 12 months, I've been noticing something strange happening to my body. First, it seemed that every time I ate a new fruit, my mouth swelled up into a rashy, itchy, tickly, pouty blob, even fruits I've always eaten before with no problems. So I started...

In my late teens and twenties, I suffered from severe depression. I used to lie in bed every night and pray that by some magical stroke of mercy, the bed would swallow me up while I slept and I’d finally be granted a pardon from this life sentence. And...